her father had a major impact on her writings as well. Another important poet during this time period was that of T.S. Eliot. In looking at his writing style it will help to see the major influences of writing at this time.T.S. Eliot, was an American-born English poet, literary critic, dramatist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, who is best known for his poem The Waste Land, one of the most widely discussed literary works of the early 20th century. His plays, which rely on a colloquial use of unrhymed verse, attempted to revive poetic drama for the contemporary audience. Eliot's methods of literary analysis have been a major influence on English and American critical writing.Eliot was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, into a distinguished New England family, the son of a businessman and a poet. He was educated at Harvard University, the Sorbing, and the University of Oxford. He became a resident of London in 1915 and a naturalized British citizen in 1927. Between 1915 and 1919 Eliot held various positions, including those of teacher, bank clerk, and assistant editor of the literary magazine Egoist.Eliot's first important poem was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915). In his first volume of verse, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), he uses the imagery of urban life in a context of poetic intensity. The poems have no fixed verse form or regular pattern, and rhyme is used only occasionally. During the 1920s Eliot developed pronounced views on literary, religious, and social subjects. His long poem in five parts, The Waste Land (1922), is an erudite work that expresses vividly his conception of the sterility of modern society in contrast with societies of the past. In essays on such subjects as the Elizabethan dramatists, the English metaphysical poets, and Italian poet Dante, Eliot profoundly influenced the tenets of literary criticism. He contended, in the collection of The Sacred Wood (1920), that the critic must...
